I get really annoyed at myself for my mood swings. I know about the bi-polar thingo and I ma not like that but I do have highs and lows instead of a steady ripple.

Lately I am like a kid with a new toy that I can't play with and it is getting to me. I guess it is the getting old thing, time running out to enjoy the good things in life , and there are many.

Just talking about it here helps, so being alone is a part of it as well.

I am open to advice in how to be the happy, affable, bloke that I enjoy being, most of the time.

Yes, I do wear my heart on my sleeve!!!! But at my age, no one can embarrass me about it.

See Mara it's a first for being kissed by a wabbit. No worries mate, you are just going through male menopause ... now you know what we gals have to go through.

I kid you not - there is such a thing as male menopause: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16499527/site/...#storyContinued

Mara ...You can adopt me. I'll be your youngest son.

Stop being a Grump and go out and meet someone , male or female. You just need Compa nionship.

You can adopt me too, I've always wanted to see Australia, go snorkelling around the reef and all that - sans sharks. I don't eat a whole lot but I do like my white wine.

Nice long walks can help ward off depression, and you never know who you might meet on the beach.

Thank you for the kind offers but I have already adopted Reddie and that is a part of the problem. Reddie wants to come here to visit and I want her to come...But I have to wait a full year until NEXT winter

Reddie said that she does not know anyone else in Australia, I told her I was the only one living here, so don't give it away will ya'?

I will come good, folks, I ain't depressed, just having a little Whinge...OK, I sed O....K?

I think I will get into the adventures and give Reddie a good scrub down. See if I can get some of that extraneous flesh off her, you know, from the operating, not the poem.

Mara ..Just relax and take one day at a time.

You have some wonderful friends here, Mara, more willing to be adopted, and even a new youngest son!

And good advice too....

Everyone feels up and down from time to time.....please don't feel too down for too long......your old friends here appreciate you as you are, just as Reddie does.

I have this theory that the more creative a person is, the more up and down the moods....and I think you are very creative...

WC is right...one day at a time.....

You ARE loved.

Marra, Marra, Marra. Where's Peter the Great? Where did you hide him?

Mara - with all that attention you have been getting, you must be sitting on a pink cloud but on the other hand, who turned you into a frog?

Well,nobody ever wrote me a poem..and you're depressed?!

QUOTE (wabbits @ May 11 2007, 03:28 AM)

... who turned you into a frog?